Suffolk (European Parliament constituency)

Suffolk
Suffolk
European Parliament constituency
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Member state	United Kingdom
Created	1979
Dissolved	1994
MEPs	1
Sources
	[1]

Suffolk was a constituency of the European Parliament located in the United Kingdom, electing one Member of the European Parliament by the first-past-the-post electoral system. Created in 1979 for the first elections to the European Parliament, it was abolished in 1994 and succeeded by the constituencies of Suffolk and South West Norfolk, Essex North and Suffolk South and Cambridgeshire.

Boundaries

On its creation in 1979, it consisted of the parliamentary constituencies of Bury St Edmunds, Eye, Harwich, Ipswich, Lowestoft and Sudbury and Woodbridge.^[1]

After the 1984 boundary changes based on the new UK parliamentary constituencies created in 1983, it consisted of the constituencies of Bury St. Edmunds, Central Suffolk, Ipswich, South East Cambridgeshire, South Suffolk, Suffolk Coastal and Waveney.^[2] South East Cambridgeshire had previously been part of Cambridge and Bedfordshire North, while Harwich was now part of Essex North East.

The constituency was abolished in 1994. Bury St Edmunds, Central Suffolk, Ipswich, Suffolk Coastal and Waveney became part of the new European constituency of Suffolk and South West Norfolk. South East Cambridgeshire was transferred to Cambridgeshire, and Suffolk South to Essex North and Suffolk South.^[3]

MEPs

Election		Member	Party
	1979	Amédée Edward Turner	Conservative
1994		constituency abolished, part of Suffolk and South West Norfolk from 1994

Election results

European Parliament election, 1989: Suffolk^[4]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Amédée Edward Turner	82,481	43.6	−10.4
	Labour	Michael D Cornish	56,788	30.0	+4.8
	Green	A C (Tony) Slade	37,305	19.7	New
	SLD	Peter R Odell	12,660	6.7	−14.1
Majority			25,693	13.6	−15.2
Turnout			189,234	34.4	+2.7
	Conservative hold		Swing	−7.6

European Parliament election, 1984: Suffolk^[5]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%	±%
	Conservative	Amédée Edward Turner	88,243	54.0	−6.4
	Labour	Wiktor Moszczynski	41,145	25.2	−1.8
	Liberal	Colin L A Leakey	34,084	20.8	+8.3
Majority			47,098	28.8	−4.6
Turnout			163,472	31.7	−0.6
	Conservative hold		Swing	−2.3

European Parliament election, 1979: Suffolk^[6]
Party		Candidate	Votes	%
	Conservative	Amédée Edward Turner	101,966	60.4
	Labour	R E Manley	45,642	27.0
	Liberal	Lord Gladwyn	21,131	12.5
Majority			56,324	33.4
Turnout			168,739	32.3
	Conservative win (new seat)

References

^ Boundary Commission for England, European Assembly Constituencies, December 1978.
^ European Parliament Information Office, MEPs and their constituencies, December 1988
^ The European Parliament 1994–1999 : MEPs and European constituencies in the United Kingdom, London : UK Office of the European Parliament, November 1994.
^ Europe votes 3 : European parliamentary election results 1989, ed. by T.T. Mackie, Dartmouth, 1990.
^ Europe votes 2 : European Parliamentary election results, 1979–1984, eds. T.T. Mackie and F.W.S. Craig, Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services, 1985.
^ European Parliament election 1979 : United Kingdom of Great Britain & Northern Ireland : results of the European election on 7 June 1979, Luxembourg: European Parliament, October 1983